On Sep 21, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Philip Hahn wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Bob Odom <
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> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Philip Hahn wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Philip Hahn <
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> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Bob Odom <
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> You need to install: epstool, pstoedit, and fig2dev
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> Bob,
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> I also noticed that \tau in figures now shows at "au" instead of the greek letter
> tau. Will those packages fix that as well?
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> Thanks,
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> OK; I got an error message:
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> title("\tau")
> "warning: ft_render: skipping missing glyph for character ' '"
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> Not sure what to do. Thanks,
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> philip
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> Philip,
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> I think that "missing glyph" means it can't find, or you don't have, the appropriate fonts
> installed. I would think that in a complete LaTex installation, you should have
> everything installed. Also I think that "fltk" is not quite mature yet. One thing you
> could try is to switch to gnuplot with "graphics_toolkit" and see if the \tau shows up
> properly. If the \tau shows up on the gnuplot, then there may be a configurstion issue
> or a bug with fltk. I can't help there.
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> Bob
> Bob (and group),
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> Even with gnuplot, I get the ft_render error for missing glyph.
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> octave:11> graphics_toolkit gnuplot
> octave:12> close all
> octave:13> plot(1)
> octave:14> title("\tau");
> warning: ft_render: skipping missing glyph for character ` '
> warning: ft_render: skipping missing glyph for character ` '
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> I installed the packages Bob ( epstool, pstoedit, and fig2dev ) recommended and I still get the __fltk_redraw__() error. I'm guessing (bob recommended in a direct email) there is a problem with LaTeX. I tried grepping through the config.log but I'm not sure what I am looking for.
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> [ trying to get my PhD dissertations figures printed!!! :-) ]
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> thanks for the help,
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> thanks,
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> philip